Surfaces have a very important role for the function of many products. Surfacetreatments and coatings can modify the surface properties strongly and can thuscontribute to achieve new or improved product functions. One of the most importantareas of functional coatings is tribology, where hard and superhard coatings are appliedto increase the wear resistance, to improve the anti-adhesion tendency or to change thefriction coefficient of a substrate.This school will give an introduction to the state of the art of tribological thin-filmcoatings: material composition, deposition processes and analysis techniques. This will beachieved by lectures as well as by practical demonstrations and trainings. This topic willbe complemented by an introduction to Design of Experiments (statistical experimentplanning). The school is part of the Marie-Curie Initial Training Network ‘Macro, Micro andNano Aspects of Machining – MaMiNa’. It is open for MaMiNa Early Stage Reasearchers aswell as for external participants. It addresses master students, doctoral candidates andpostdoctoral researcher.The school is split in part A that will take place in Lodz, Poland and part B, which will takeplace in Braunschweig, Germany.

Participation is possible for both parts or only for part A or part B. Please apply for eachpart separately following the deadline, see below! As the number of participants isrestricted the registration will be made on a first come – first serve basis.The participation is free of charge. It includes lunches, drinks during the breaks anddocumentation (book ‘Functional Coatings’ by Prof. Bogdan Wendler + CD of thepresentations). Participants must pay for their travel and accommodation. Expenses duringthe social events are not included.Deadline for application: January 4, 2012Application for part A (Lodz): By e-mail to m.makowka@gmail.comApplication for part B (Braunschweig): By e-mail to seda.erbas@ist.fraunhofer.deTogether with the registration acknowledgement you will receive information about traveland accommodation.

Places

Part A: Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Technical University of Lodz,Stefanowskiego 1/15, 90924 Lodz, Poland (Next airport is Warsaw).

Further information about part A:Technical University of LodzProf. Bogdan Wendler, Head Dept. Coatings’ EngineeringPhone +48 426 312 265E-mail bogdan.wendler@p.lodz.pl